42 (Doctor Who)

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188 - 42
Doctor	David Tennant (Tenth Doctor)
Writer	Chris Chibnall
Director	Graeme Harper
Script editor	To be announced
Producer	To be announced
Executive producer(s)	Russell T. Davies Julie Gardner
Production code	3.7
Length	45 minutes
Transmission date	12 May 2007
Preceded by	The Lazarus Experiment
Followed by	Human Nature

42 is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It will be broadcast on BBC One on 12 May 2007,^[1] and is the seventh episode of Series 3 of the revived Doctor Who series. The title is revealed in February's edition of Doctor Who Magazine.^[2]

The story is written by Chris Chibnall, who is the lead writer and co-producer of spin-off show Torchwood, and directed by Graeme Harper, who directed The Caves of Androzani, Revelation of the Daleks, Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel and Army of Ghosts/Doomsday.^[2]

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Continuity 4 Outside references 5 Trivia 6 References

[edit] Plot

The TARDIS crew find themselves on a spaceship in the 42nd century slowly being pulled into a sun, with saboteurs at work and crew members being possessed. It includes the catchphrase "Burn with me!".^[3]

[edit] Cast

• The Doctor — David Tennant
• Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
• McDonnell — Michelle Collins
• Riley — William Ash
• Orin — Anthony Flanagan
• Korwin — Matthew Chambers
• Lerner — Vinette Robinson
• Ashton — Gary Powell
• Erina — Rebecca Oldfield
  
  

[edit] Continuity

• The phrase "Burn with me" has been used once before, in the episode Smith and Jones, by Florence Finnegan before she was vaporized.

• The Doctor wears his blue suit again but with a different shirt and also the space suit from The Satan Pit.

[edit] Outside references

• In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction series by Doctor Who season 17 script editor Douglas Adams, the number 42 is revealed to be the answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe and Everything. References to Hitchhiker's have appeared in Doctor Who starting with season 17, as well as a few individual episodes since, most recently in The Christmas Invasion. Adams himself reused elements from his own Doctor Who scripts City of Death and Shada in his novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and the plot of his novel Life, the Universe and Everything was based on his rejected Who script treatment, Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen. An incident in Life, the Universe and Everything in which two of Adams's Hitchhiker's protagonists materialise at Lord's parallels a similar appearance of the TARDIS in the same location during The Daleks' Master Plan. The overall plot of this episode — characters on board a spaceship that's hurtling towards a star — bears a passing similarity to an event in Adams' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, in which the main characters find themselves on a spaceship hurtling into a sun (although most of them are teleported away to safety).
• 42 is also one of "the numbers" in the television show Lost.

[edit] Trivia

• This episode has the shortest Doctor Who episode title — at least in terms of the number of characters; it has three syllables, which makes Rose (the runner-up in number of characters) still the shortest in that regard. It is also the first time that numerals have been used as opposed to numbers being spelt out (i.e. The Three Doctors) since Galaxy 4 (1965).

[edit] References